Eu4 How To Change Culture
23.08.2019 admin
The best thing to do is to convert everyone to your state's culture, even if they are accepted, since if you lose a culture you can take a pretty big income hit. Convert the provinces with the biggest tax bases first, and especially tolerated or unaccepted cultures.
Maybe the first question should be: what is the impact of the 'Accept Culture change'? Does it only change country culture or culture of ALL provinces?
If that only change main culture... what is the benefit of Accept Culture change at all?
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Accept Cultural Shift is a good decision to take if you are a small nation that is expanding into a different culture group than your own, because you can move the capital, accept a cultural shift, and then you no longer suffer from the penalties to tax and manpower and rebellion from being a different culture. The decision changes the culture of your nation's government, not the culture of any particular province.
For example if you are playing as a greek OPM and expanding primarily into italy, you can change culture to italian. This means you don't have to spend time and points on converting all the italian provinces to greek. Instead you just convert your original province to italian.
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Here you can read more about cultures: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Culture#Accepted_cultures
Brief: if provinces with some foreign culture contribute more than 20% of your base tax, then the culture becomes an accepted culture and you get no manpower and tax penalties.
The article about cultural shift: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Decisions#Accept_Cultural_Shift
This decision is available only when the culture of your capital is different from your main culture. It is not just replace culture in one province, it changes the main culture of your entire nation. You don't have to take this decision, you can change the culture of you capital province instead with diplo points.
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Provinces with unaccepted cultures get (iirc) -33% reductions to tax and manpower, as well as +2 to province unrest.
Accepting a culture does not change your primary culture - it only means you have enough of it to get the full use out of it.
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